Dr. Celine Gounder explains how poor dental care can potentially increasing your risk of developing other health conditions.

Fragments of the left side of the skull of a human relative have been discovered in Spain, revealing the face of the oldest ...

Biologist Katharine Edmonson asked the young boy who approached her table if he wanted to hold the tiger skull in his hands. Some children hesitate, but not 11-year-old Devin Shuman, a fifth-grader at ...

TV presenter Davina McCall has opened up about the moment she found out she had a potentially fatal brain tumour - and how ...

Davina McCall underwent a gruelling operation to remove a colloid cyst from her brain in November, but the star believes she ...

Paranthropus robustus was a species of prehistoric human that lived in South Africa about 2 million years ago, alongside Homo ...

We aren’t the only species on this planet that have domesticated another species. There is one kind of ancient ant that herds and cares for insect aphids in order to milk them of honeydew sugar. But ...

The condition was good, although the mandible was not included and some teeth were missing. 'But it was possible to reconstruct these and recover the complete skull through statistical ... taken from ...

The mystery of how Mozart truly looked may be solved at last, after scientists reconstructed his living face from his skull.

It’s also called periodontitis. Without treatment, it can damage the gum tissue above and around your teeth. Periodontitis can even damage your jawbone and teeth if it’s left too long.

Teeth grinding, or bruxism, can happen day or night. But sleep bruxism is much harder to treat since many of us don’t even know we’re doing it. The condition is often only detected when ...

About a year ago saw the publication of research based on the examination of a large number of teeth from the Viking Age population ... All the skulls came from adults who died between 20 and 60 years ...